Events
1994 - Confirmation of the first extrasolar planets (around pulsar PSR B1257+12) is announced by Alexander Wolszczan.
Births
1652 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician
1774 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist
1882 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1889 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate
1951 - Michael Hartley Freedman, American mathematician
Deaths
1557 - Petrus Apianus, German mathematician
1719 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian
1825 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician
1965 - Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1980 - Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist
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John... just checking in, came across this blog after revisiting one of your older papers in preparing for a class. Get it touch when you have a moment. Best L